Excerpt from Household Chemistry for Girls: A Laboratory Guide
To outline a strong course in chemistry, especially suited to girls of high school age, is the purpose of this book. Several years experience in developing this course has strengthened the authors conviction that it is better in every way to give girls special work in chemistry rather than to make their study identical with that for boys. In the Los Angeles High School, where this plan has been followed for some time, it has brought about a gratifying increase in the number of girls studying chemistry.
But it was with no intention of weakening the course or of presenting to girls merely the "pyrotechnics" of chemistry that the differentiation has been made. On the contrary, the same standard of thoroughness has been maintained for both boys and girls, with the result that full credit has been granted by the authorities of the University of California for the years work in household chemistry.
Though our ultimate aim is the training of intelligent homemakers, this is a manual of chemistry, not of domestic science. It is therefore suitable for a purely academic high school, no less than for a polytechnic high school, where a rigorous course in household chemistry forms a necessary foundation for the work in domestic science. The choice of subjects is based in a general way on the following scheme:
What we breathe.
What we drink and use for cleansing.
What we use for fuels and illuminants.
Chemical nature of common substances.
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